What I find more worrying is the inability for them to be economically repaired, once the chassis tub is damaged. However, I imagine that a number of modern cars would have a similar issue?
Bud 4/4 - Stanley
As my JLR engineer son observed when he had a good look at the 'CX' platform,, there is NO deformable 'crash structure' up front. So any frontal biased impact is transferred to the chassis... deformation etc.
NO idea WHY it was designed like this... Lotus have used a deformable crash structure on the front area of the Elise 'tub' since it's inception in 1996... and the newer Evora launched in 2010 also has one... additionally the chassis is made up of 3 segments that can be separated and replaced to repair crash damage, mitigating the 'write off' scenario.
I am sure the insurance industry will begin to see this and I fear all CX platform cars will have elevated insurance premiums as a result...
